The department of education can’t account for over half of it’s funding every year.
Health and human services has over a trillion dollar budget, but no let’s not trim some of that fat.
There are dozens of long obsolete federal commissions who’s commissioners each earn a six or more figure salary for doing absolutly nothing productive.
All of these useless oxygen theiving congress critters and their collective staffs should go without pay before the military sees one dollar of cuts IMO.
“Why is it that the ONLY government department who’s funding is mandated by the Constitution...”
Duh, because it’s the one that makes Pubs look like hypocrites.
By the way, defense isn’t “mandated.” Empowered is more like it. The Constitution exists in part to provide for a common defense, according to itself. But we don’t need to use it. It’s just there if we need it. There was no standing army in the early years of the Republic.
Certainly what we have now is not necessary for defense. I don’t know what you call it, but Constitutional defense ain’t it. World police is closest, I guess.
Yes, we have thousands upon thousands of government employees doing nothing really useful.
Whether we (or the Democrats) like it or not, we can't continue to support such nonsense. We have a major world conflict already underway, whether the news media covers it as such is irrelevant. It's upon the world, and will continue to escalate with ever increasing urgency.